Blizz Blues 53: Mini Adventures With Mops

Written by: Scott Hawkes (@jarimor) | April 4, 2012 5:55 am

33 Comments

Garrosh — both of him — needs a stone cold PvP megastar to take care of MoP‘s carebear menace.

There’s only one man/corpse for the job.

Darnell is on the hunt for pandas, and he will use any means necessary — anyone know of a good Godzilla kennel service? — to get the job done. First he has to tackle the enemy of many in Mists of Pandaria: the big-ass wait to get in.

Meanwhile the pandas are on the move. Soaking in all the sights and delights that Orgrimmar has to offer, one traveler is suitably impressed…

With all the new gear choices available, you know “Skittle Syndrome” is a terrifying prospect for all the heroes of the Horde. Big Moo is on hand to solve all your clothing problems. The fabulous tauren is in hot demand — an invasion is no excuse for looking ugly — aiming to bring some taste to WoW‘s fashion victims.

Well, some of them.

Join your boy Darnell as he tries to find out what all this Pandaria stuff is about, in this week’s fast and furious Blizz Blues.

Blizz Blues 53: Mini Adventures With Mops

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http://www.facebook.com/Maziel Mark Neale

OMG I would love if Blizzard did that with the Pandaren NPCs and put subtitles on my screen. What a hoot.

/begin rant
You guys are still doing auto-play on your videos… still annoying. I don’t know why it is so difficult for you guys to set all the videos to NOT auto-play… /rant

BigMoo’s awesome. Should make a spin-off series: Blizz Moos with Big Moo.
- Tomasz Guzik
  
  Why? What irks you so much about the autoplay function? Most ppl when the click on a link to a video would like to watch the video. For those it saves the click on “play”. If you clicked on the link just to read comments you can pause it for your viewing conveniance.
  - http://www.facebook.com/Maziel Mark Neale
    
    What irks me so much about the auto play function is because I follow GameBreaker.TV on Twitter as well as other GBTV staff’s individual twitters.
    
    This is how I often find a lot of interesting videos they post, usually before coming to the site.
    
    So I will right click on the link and open in new window for later viewing.
    
    I do this with several videos that tweeted by them.
    
    And then they all play at once due to the AUTO-PLAY function.
    
    They never used to do this.
    I used to be able to open a bunch of things to review later, then go to that tab at my own time and play them. Now, I have to go to each opened tab to press pause.
    
    Does that answer your question?
    - http://www.facebook.com/Maziel Mark Neale
      
      Add to that, once you have finished watching the said video and post a comment. You refresh your page to check for new comments and the video automatically plays again. I don’t want to re-watch what I already watched, I just want to refresh the page for the new comments. But no, I have to scroll up to the top of the page on some of the pages with lots of comments… just to pause the video, to then scroll down to read the new comment.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Joao-Vicente/100000881627920 João Vicente
      
      Do it like me. (if you have firefox). Flash Block. Done.
      
      Was annoying to come check the comments and it starts playing, no problem when I had good internet but now I prefer to use flash block.
      - http://twitter.com/Jayeluu Jason Winter
        
        Yeah, then we don’t get paid. Then we stop making a site. Please don’t suggest this again.
      - boarderdog
        
        Yes, having events occur on a page/site without the user causing said event to occur is indeed breaking the usability standards of web design 101 and should be avoided.
        
        However, this actually kinda sparked a thought/suggestion for gbtv. Why not have a “membership/supporter/donator” feature that would remove all the “annoyances” and allow for a stripped down, ad free website experience? Zam does it?
        
        I know I would be down for like an annual fee or whatever. It would give the gbtv fans that extra nudge to “donate”
http://twitter.com/Nerdoku Zach

Please stop auto play on the videos…

Episode was great!
- http://www.facebook.com/Maziel Mark Neale
  
  Totally agree. The old GBTV site never had any of their videos automatically start.
  
  But this new pile of, I mean, this new site, almost every video automatically starts playing and it really peeves me off to no end.
  - http://twitter.com/pandamanana Tom 紳
    
    100,000% agreed. Auto-play is the most annoying feature ever. Otherwise, great episode.
    - JJGlyph
      
      Agreeeeed. Auto-play is bad.
- Exorcismos
  
  I can only agree.
http://www.facebook.com/trose87 T Paul Rose

darnell will be funny forever. i hope you keep making these mike. even when nobody plays. even when it somehow becomes an even worse game.
http://www.facebook.com/kasuturo Juan Castro Martínez

Spanish is not Pandaren, but it will do
A1cntrler

Every time a Starbucks Via commercial comes on TV, my Pavlovian response kicks in to watch until the Gamebreaker logo doesn’t appear.
http://profile.yahoo.com/7MPGC5FCQJZGFKICKCMALR3AYY Eric

so who thought of the giant turtle floating island thing first, MoP or Naruto?
- Remi Chausse
  
  Neither. You know that Turtle-Being-An-Island has been in lots of things. I think there were some SNES games with a turtle island…
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Viacava/100000434440512 Chris Viacava
  
  There was a Giant Turtle with a temple on its back in Aladdin 3 also
- Rob Dexter
  
  Actually, it’s a concept that’s been around for centuries. Chinese, Indian and Native American mythology all contain references to it. I know it from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series which I started reading around 1985 a few years after the first book was published.
- pc11
  
  “Actually, it’s a concept that’s been around for centuries. Chinese, Indian and Native American mythology all contain references to it”
  
  This.
http://twitter.com/matizxv Benoit Viau

REROOOOLLL
Sharuko

Mistsopandaslovkia classic.
http://twitter.com/c3o5nnect J

Still playing WoW? Come April 10th, time to REROLLLLL!
http://www.facebook.com/markince Mark Andrew Ince

Can you add subtitles? Being British i gota keep skipping back to understand a word dernell says lol
- Rob Dexter
  
  I’m Aussie and I sometimes have trouble understanding him, too. This episode was the worst yet, though. I had a hard time understanding everything that was said! I thought of subtitles, too. Any chance, Mike? I love the way Darnell speaks but my ears just can’t get around it properly! lol
Nysro

Meh, everytime I think of possibly logging into wow, I just look at the MOP video and screens, and think to myself………. Ya no im not going back to World of Pooh Corner. SWTOR is a much more adult experience. Pandas and Pokemon just killed wow for me. Darnell come to the dark side!
RJTravis

Fashion on a female troll oh no time to just reroll . “nice”
http://twitter.com/FishBaitism Fish Bait

Waiting in this long asse &”&^*$%*”^ line cracked me up
http://twitter.com/Beastingz Bob

Cabesa de la tortuga!!! Mike B, do you speak spanish? If so, I cant wait for your MoP Blizz Blues
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545365392 Michael Ponte

panda-slovakia….epic
Revanhavoc

Fashion on a Troll better just reroll…

lol where do you get this stuff? It’s money.
Ignacio Rebolledo

lol! why are pandas speaking spanish? “cabeza de la tortuga!” xDD made me lol
levi cross

You Know, for science. LOL

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